1 sheet ([1] p.) ;|c57 x 45 cm. (fol.) Caption title

Imprint printed below rule at foot of page

Dated and signed at foot of second column: Fait au Cap, le 11 juillet 1793, l'an 2 de la République française. Polverel. Sonthonax. Par les Commissaires civils de la République française. Picquenard, sécretaire adjoint de la Commission civile

Printed in three parallel columns after caption title and statement of responsibility; engraved ornamental headpiece bearing the words "Au nom de la République" printed above caption title

An exceedinly rare translation, printed mostly in Creole, of: Au nom de la République française. Proclamation nous, Étienne Polverel & Léger Félicité Sonthonax, commissaires civils de la République, délégués aux iles françaises de l'Amérique sous le vent, pour y rétablir l'ordre & la tranquillité publique, [Cap-Français, i.e. Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, 1793]

Proclamation granting freedom to enslaved women and children of newly emancipated slaves; fifteen articles describe the procedures by which slaves could be married, the laws which governed the status of women and children after marriage; also specifies the value of women and children of both sexes by age, according to which their masters were to be indemnified

Cf. Roquincourt, T. Marine et les colonies, 2552

"Pour copie conforme à l'original. Polverel (?)" followed by indecipherable ms. notation beneath name of printer in column three; official seal of the Commissaires nationaux-civils of Saint-Domingue stamped underneath column three

John Carter Brown Library copy has "No. 27" in ms. hand in upper left hand corner

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund

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